Making your own snow shovel

Is it frugality or justgood use of resources? Making your own
snow shovel is easy, a nice little DIY project and brings immediate
satisfaction (in case snow already covers the ground). It also means that you
do not have to buy a more expensive shovel from the store. In this way you save
money, which therefore you do not need to earn and the created time can be directed
to keeping your self-reliant life running at home. Another advantage is that
you do not sponsor larger corporations which are probably behind the
manufacturing and sales of the store bought shovel.

The creation of your home made shovel is not
hard and can probably be done with simple materials that you have laying around
somewhere; a piece of plywood, and a stick and a few nails. Find an angle that
works well for you (and your back). One tip: for right handed people it is nice
if the piece of plywood is a bit longer at the right side, so the scooping edge
‘cuts’ into the snow in an angle. For left handed people it should be the left
side.